life the art scene you center at night cypress says no to any bailout that would have meant to harsh tax old savers and pins its soap instead of striking a deal with russia we'll bring you up to speed on the latest. russian the un human rights officials sound the alarm over the treatment of prisoners at guantanamo bay as u.s. military officials try to downplay mass hunger strike at the detention center. barack obama arrives in israel for the first time as u.s. president but may struggle to close the growing gap between the country's middle east policies. and an iraqi terrorist group with links to al qaeda claims responsibility for bombings that killed dozens in baghdad further unsettle the country ten years on from the u.s. led invasion.

all over again even she if you're just joining us my name is kevin and this is art international live from moscow our top story that you just heard scenes of relief from celebration greeted the cyprus parliament's rejection of a tax on bank deposits the one off levy linked to an e.u. bailout deal would have seen millions of account holders lose up to a tenth of this savings and have been condemned by officials in the public alike but the country now finds itself on the brink of bankruptcy of course another project the used terms it may have to turn to russia for assistance r.t.g. god cannot small right now cyprus is in a very difficult position because it's rejected the proposal by the european union and the troika to tax private bank accounts and now frankly there are no many places for cyprus to turn for help and actually one of these places is russia and the soviet finance minister is in the russian capital the entire day there is

speculation that cyprus is asking russia for a loan. the finance minister said that he was satisfied with the negotiations but no official offer has been made so far although he himself said he's not leaving moscow until an agreement is reached all this is happening. while anger and anger merkel being furious over cyprus talking to moscow about this all together since earlier she strongly advised the country not to even discuss the issue with anybody else but brussels or the troika and actually we know that the president personally told what he would put in about his country's problems decision to reject the european union's proposal although the latest developments all are that one of the financial aides of the russian president said that theoretically if cyprus became a member of the region economic community then it would tap into the reserve fund that organization tax and another development coming from cyprus itself is that the

country has prepared a new plan to tap into it's a social fund like we could be retirement fund to others to collect around five billion euros which it would have collected if it would introduce this tax for all the private bank accounts in the country now for more on this i'm joined by the chief economist of renaissance capital. of the how likely is it that cyprus could use this reserve fund that the your region community the economic community has and i guess there are two important points to be made the first time you already mention for that to happen separate seems like they have to become a member of this community but i think the more interesting point is that this was an obvious new that was already used with belarus remember a couple of years ago belarus was also facing a big developing very very severe economic problem for problems so a lot of the money that billet was received was actually from that community but we

do not ability as a member of that community so i guess in that case it was easy so i guess the bottom line is that a similar obvious. has been used in the past but always there is something called details that need to happen for fulfill for produce to pan out but he needs a possibility since and what about this the news coming from cyprus to top to top type into social funds how effective do you think that could be well at the end of the day we do know that there is about seventeen billion dollars the overall package that is needed we do not have the european union to try to have offered about ten billion dollars so not a seven billion euros so not a seven billion euro needed i think that given the fact that the proposal that original proposal was rejected but a secret part of this it did they're looking they're looking for options one of the options is to get a loan for money from russia identity from russia or the avenue that we just described or to find some additional internal sources. of income when banks wrote cyprus remain shut to prevent panicking investors rushing to withdraw

their savings or correspond to us for siller reports in the capital of the situation facing the people that are not as far as what goes on the street at the moment it's rather calm the initial panic really happened over the weekend when that announcement was made from brussels that they will be tax of people were lining up. in front of a.t.m.'s trying to get their money out and yesterday i was talking to some locals who were trying to get some money out to be a.t.m. some had run out of cash and this morning i actually tried to buy a bottle of water and they have given me a handful of change and apologizing that they have run out of five euros and ten euro notes because the banks were closed the u.k. government as we know had already sent about one million euros in cash to their troops who are here in cyprus just to keep the cash growing now on a number a bigger level an economical level if the banks do remain close this book pose a problem as the economy does substantially on the banking sector and there's already been doubt on whether the banks will open at all but we also heard from

reaction from the e.u. i did not find this minister said well the the block. we regretted the boat but the bailout offer still sounds provided that the initial requirement is still met all the sleeve that is not that has not passed the parliament and they're really not happy about that will the impact of what is happening in cyprus are really sending reports across a girl first of all to the citizens who are now quite afraid of their say because of the fact that the seeds of doubt the soul of the credibility has been damaged that the damage has been done even if the foetid not go through so people are saying if it can happen to cyprus that that red line to be crossed and dipping into people's savings it could happen to other euro zone countries that might be needing bailouts in the future i spoke to make pasta as he said is the research unit of the nationalist strain a bank he told me that a rescue loan to cyprus could yield rich rewards for russia. i think either way it appears that russia is going to have to pay but far from that being

a burden let's look at the fact that russia is the ninth largest economy in the world it's a two trillion dollar g.d.p. and in fact there are opportunities here for the state which to open up which might previously have not been available so it's not this is so really all bad news the voluntary way of doing it is to say that perhaps some group some cypriot assets might now well be available for sale which wouldn't previously have been considered in minerals or oil and gas or exploration rights or indeed other measures which would be attractive to russia perhaps in a way that previously might not have been available so there are opportunities here as well as problems. the band of engineers brings a steady programs now look at rebranding yourself the u.k.'s chance for the exchequer avails a new budget which vision is cutting corporate taxes while introducing a host of new duties too including a levy on alcohol examine the detail in just a bit. but next us officials have admitted that the number of guantanamo bay

detainees on a hunger strike has almost doubled since last week they've also said that at least eight inmates are being force fed but dismiss lawyers claims of prisoner abuse russia's voiced concern over the hunger strike while the un human rights body is taking a cautious stance on the issue. as the latest. the hunger strike of guantanamo inmates has been causing concerns and condemnation worldwide from the human rights organizations and activists russia has now joined in in this criticism earlier we spoke to constantin del go for the advice of the russian foreign minister on the human rights issues and he was also very critical of the events at guantanamo prison. many international human rights organizations have acknowledged that the guantanamo bay prisoners are living in a rights vacuum with interrogation methods and confinement conditions are violating major human rights standards and of course will undermine the us as an international rights watchdog the prison is operational despite its inmates winning

almost half of their appeals which were later overruled by higher courts we have repeatedly drawn the attention of our american colleagues that the very existence of this detention camp marez its human rights defender reputation as the us likes to see itself double standards are obvious here and we hope that eventually the guantanamo problem will be solved once and for all we can pull our she also asked for comments from the united nations high commissioner for human rights the organizations there guys its reply to us by saying that they were looking into the legit mistreatment and the hunger strike itself but so far they cannot confirm it and there are certain fears that the un watchdog simply has no access to the guantanamo inmates the ones on hunger strike and the only information we've managed to garner so far came from the lawyers of the inmates and they they are the ones who have been ringing alarm bells and informing the public and r.t. in particular of everything happening behind bars in going to

a prison there have been no comments coming from u.s. authorities from officials from defense officials which is causing more reasons for condemnation and concern among the human rights activists as i've said most of the information comes from lawyers thanks to them we know that some of the inmates on hunger strike. have already been losing consciousness and coughing blood and there are certain fears that in two days on the forty fifth day of the hunger strike they might start having problems with eyesight and even more serious health problems because their condition is deteriorating the only comment we've received from the us officials from the guantanamo officials in particular was that the number of inmates. has doubled over the last ten days and now amounts to twenty four people but that's been the rest of the information has been concealed and this is certainly causing concerns especially given the fact that the u.s. has been a strong advocate of human rights worldwide but when it comes to

a legit violations of human rights on its own territory both some people the officials are keeping one everyone in the dark on the situation of course we are following all the developments in this bizarre story and we'll be getting more information from the lawyers which will of course we'll be forming our viewers as we get it absolutely lecture or a picture from human rights watch told me she thinks the obama administration's lost its credibility is a guardian of international law. they're going to have to respond at some point and they need to either you know try and prosecute the detainees who do actually have credible evidence again or really them at this point only detainees actually face any formal charges perhaps of the people there the administration has said they had no interest in prosecuting being need cue you know act on this they cannot continue to keep detain people indefinitely without trial for years romney administration the u.s. government is clearly in violation of international law and its obligations under

international law and journalists don't have actor even the un special rapporteur tour does not have access we don't have access it greatly limits our ability to be quick damn it to understand what's happening effectively regarding their detention conditions and it only undermines the united states his credibility when they're calling for him here and he wants norms in other countries. the guantanamo august drugs but i'm going for forty three days now if you want to trace it but you can on our website all to dot com it's all chronicled. next tonight britain's twenty thirteen budgets kept true to the spirit of austerity hiking judi's across the board but also including a reduction in corporate taxes by the architect of britain's austerity program george osborne it included measures to support those most hard hit by the cuts details know if marty sort of. chancellor was forced to admit that economically we are worse off and yet he said that we're going to be playing with our economic plan

there's no money around yet we see a lot of tax cuts announced now there's a whole raft of measures this is always going to see as budget taken more as a whole rather than all these individual measures but we can talk she has he said a lot of ties in there some kidneys to the future councils as any of the pines they stop the cities the escalator that stuff in the bay attached to something missing campaign to very hard parts and it is a big but for any of the positive news that within that budget announcement there was that krystle missing ingredient and that's great and that's what it really comes down to here we see over the years. that grated continue to stagnate and that's really start. to see economy and it seems today again for all the announcements once again that is lacking the budget announcing coincided with the latest unemployment figures they've got are living costs have increased as we were

listening to the chancellor deliver that twenty thirty budget i was outside with some of the protesters from some trade unions and his announcements were met it's allowed the people gathered that they really haven't found a message this government the resonates with british. sara for the syrian government rebels accuse each other of using chemical weapons near the northern city of aleppo has been one of the big stories of the week and a priest in the town tells r.t. he can confirm chemical weapons were used in the soul that left twenty five people dead we talk about very shortly tonight. with. science technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. you know how sometimes you see

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again barack obama has arrived in israel on his first ever visit in fact to the country's u.s. president at home a bomb has been repeatedly criticised by pro israeli lobbyist for distancing himself from tel aviv and there's little chance of the ice falling either between the two governments any time soon as ati's paul asli a found out. when former american president george bush visited israel his trip with. pope benedict the sixteenth was cloaked white who now it's a bomb has turned. the visit down shakable lyons is a sign of the extraordinary relations between israel and the united states. so extraordinary that the prime minister's office invited the public to choose one of these designs as the trips official emblem but while ations between the two leaders are strained and many believe that positive p.r. is nothing more than cave a spin the parties have differences. on the palestinian issue or

on the view through the. the rise of islamist forces in very good you were to see from jerusalem nearby is not what you see from washington. at the distance. from the palestinian street for that matter. came just to beautify the ugly face that bush left over the american government works the same whether the president is a bomber or bush difference is that one president smiles while the other does. this is likely to be the scene to the next three days while a bomb is in town anger frustration and raised in the streets of palestine also full of posters protesting the president's visit in many of them his face has been blacked out. critics warn that if a bomb a dozen confronted you know who are settlements and sixty seven borders the visit could disintegrate into another diplomatic failure and some say we knew all of violence in the middle east we don't see ourselves leaving our communities we have

returned to places where we've the jewish people have always wished to live there and we live there with the encouragement of the support of the israeli government when it comes to running here to a bomb and netanyahu are at loggerheads a bomber is against an israeli military strike despite relations between the us and iran being themselves quite strained franking iran. in spite of american explicit objections would certainly. hamper israel's relations with the united states might. even break them all together so for all its hype a bomb is visit for many is less of a compliment and more of an attempt by washington to reaffirm its military alliance in pursuit of its economic interests the interests of the united states its not its in the researches of the middle east and not in its people and who ever think that it is the united states has changed that is it will be proved. differently comes at

a price. the three day trip cost millions of dollars is high points this is what's so difficult. for me i'll see that. list elias sort of neary told us the u.s. hasn't shown any real commitment to ending the israeli palestinian conflict the americans know this administration's so far for so many years adopted the approach of conflict management but not conflict is a new sin and as long as the american spirit to do it proactive or to take a proactive role in bringing the two sides together and in defining that there is a preference for negotiations i think that isn't the big goal for the american they do station particularly on the visit by president obama to middle east is more of a state visit to israel and some kind of a side seeing who would look at a scene in a photo and that is not what the palestinians are expecting from an american president. and i would totally group name the islamic state of iraq says it was

behind a series of attacks in baghdad on tuesday the killed sixty five in mostly shiite areas of the city it was indeed the deadliest violence to hit the right this year it came on the tenth anniversary of the u.s. led invasion of the country let's talk about this and other countries coping with the consequences of the war with phyllis bennis she's from the peace campaigning group institute for policy studies she joins us on the line from washington d.c. phyllis good evening to you thanks for taking the time one of the most vehement defenders if we remember back of the iraq invasion was of course former u.k. prime minister tony blair he said that had said it was not being removed be an uprising worse than syria would you agree with that. you know i don't think we know exactly what the situation would have been if there had not been this illegal and illegitimate preventive war waged against iraq. we do know that we so that hussein regime had been supported by the united states and somewhat by what many say for many years while he was in power so if the u.s.

was so concerned about this being a dictatorial regime which i doubt of lee it was the first thing they should have done it was would have been to simply stop supporting the regime something they have done throughout the one nine hundred eighty s. really until saddam hussein turned his back on his one time allies in the united states and invaded their other great ally kuwait until that time the u.s. had been backing the regime of saddam hussein militarily with the seeds for via logical weapons with other kinds of military support as well as financial and political support throughout the years of iraq's war with iran so that that somehow this was a longstanding challenge that had to be dealt with and war was the only way simply flies in the face of what the real relationships were between the united states primarily and secondarily and iraq with. the troops out of iraq we just only

have to look back to what happened yesterday the tenth anniversary see yet more loss of life was it too early to withdraw those troops she thank you. absolutely not those troops were there ten years too long the legacy of that war what the u.s. leaves behind raises horrific realities for the people of iraq what we're seeing now the sectarian violence is a very direct result of the sectarian basis of the government that the u.s. pows when it occupied iraq starting in two thousand and three the sick terry in the aftermath was going to continue whenever those troops were with the fix now than what's the fix the first big is for the u.s. to finally get out it is not completely out at this point it still has about seven hundred special forces there sixteen thousand civilian contractors being paid by the state department these are very problematic realities as soon as that happens

what has to happen next is reparations and compensation for what is already putting billions of dollars of international aid to iraq surely that is helping isn't it no it's not helping because the aid is being distributed through a corrupt government being kept in power by the united states despite the fact that those billions of dollars and military forces to the regime of the maliki in power that regime barely could speak to anyone in washington they're far more allied with iran these days but the u.s. is still sending money and money is the need wasted by the early government and entirely new method needs to be created and i don't know exactly what that will look like some combination of the united nations and the arab league perhaps some kind of a grouping of the evening states. some kind of involvement where non-governmental organization the international red cross all of that it will have to be involved to

figure out a better way to get money to the people of iraq not simply to leave us that we're up for this british washington d.c. tonight thank you. now on our website we will know what you think about it that's what we're asking what you think the invasion of iraq resulted in a question well this is what you're telling us back half of you voted so far thanks if you had to leave the security of the whole region is going downhill since the invasion a quarter of you say u.s. power has been declining in the islamists of being emboldened globally about one in five think nothing's fundamentally changed regarding global security only six percent said the move of saddam hussein has made the world a safer place still plenty of time listen what you think it was good to get your thoughts on the big stories of the day and cost of vote now at our teeth don't count. as turn our attention now to syria where the main opposition coalition is calling for international investigation into whether chemical weapons were were not used in

an attack near the northern city of aleppo the rebels and government have blamed each other for the assault twenty people died including sixteen government troops journalist in damascus of dollar xeni as the details for us. that fact occurred in an area called last night which is in the north of funny people in an area that was under the control of the government it contained one of the military station it's called the police center the police training center and this police training center has been an attack from the opposition for the last three weeks or more and they were very to control it hard because of the difficulty of the hard fighting from the government it could not control it and now after that attack the government claims that opposition who fired a missile a. pain in the morning with chemical gases and just chemical guys is laid into the killing of people on the one of the seventy people including some of the

doctors we're trying to. to heal these people and in this in close by hospitals the government to claim that the opposition was was responsible for it and very and the opposition said that the same time the government is responsible for the exchange of claims between two. conditions between the two parties journalists damascus i was either in front of misquoted the death toll is actually worse twenty five people died then i actually got in touch with a priest in the town just outside lepper where this attack took place he told us by phone he can confirm chemical weapons were indeed used it back who could cripple in the heart. i. assured. him. we're in. over. what. he

told. her. after being forty years doctors in that wouldn't be such great. usually per year of the antiwar answer coalition says there are clear signs the conflict is escalating further. there is a vast and significant escalation going on we see right now that many elements in the united states congress as well as in the european union are attempting to lift the arms embargo on the free syrian army rebels and more significant ways and perhaps even intervene in this in the sense of a no fly zone or attacking syria's air defense system so if there is any sort of use of chemical weapons by either side for that matter i think what it does is it marks a serious escalation in the conflict which is very worrying i think the united states has already sort of said in their own statements both in the state department and the obama administration yesterday and yesterday that they aren't ready to believe that the opposition has used chemical weapons in any way despite the fact they're

backed by very powerful nations and it's not farfetched so i expect the united states through their own investigation if it looks like the chemical weapons were used by the rebels as opposed to the regime that the united states would try to use their investigation to cloud the waters there and make it seem as if that did not take place people crossed on to axt. sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build the most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give it doing about anything tombs mission to teach the creation why it should care about humans in. this is why you should watch only

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